Finance & Controlling Advisor (Humanitarian Action)

Finance & Controlling Advisor (Humanitarian Action)

Unit: Humanitarian Action Team (IDS)

Preferred location: Vienna (Austria), Nairobi (Kenya), Skopje (North Macedonia), Amman (Jordan), Faridabad (India), La Paz (Bolivia), Dakar (Senegal)

Duration: 1 year

About us

SOS Children's Villages, founded in 1949, is the world's largest non-governmental organization focused on supporting children and young people without parental care, or at risk of losing it.

Child neglect, abuse and abandonment is everywhere. Families are at risk of separation. Locally led, we work in more than 130 countries and territories to strengthen families who are under pressure so they can stay together. When this is not in a child or young person's best interests, we provide quality care according to their unique needs.

Together with partners, donors, communities, children, young people and families, we enable children to grow up with the bonds they need to develop and become their strongest selves. We speak up for each child's rights and advocate for change so all children can grow up in a supportive environment.

They contribute to the leadership of SOS Children's Villages International (CVI) including enabling sound budgeting and financial management by leaders and managers in the two units: FCS (Federation Secretariat) and IDS (International Development Support).

Mission

The Humanitarian Action enables and supports local national offices (NOs) or partners when needed or on request, in pursuing their mission as set out in the SOS Children’s Villages International Humanitarian Policy.

The Humanitarian Action Service is ensured by an agile team of deployable senior humanitarian experts having an executive role to Member Associations aiming at reinforcing their capacities, ensure a timely start‑up of response or scale‑up of humanitarian operations.

This includes internal coordination of various funding streams or humanitarian appeals particularly in case of large‑scale responses, as well provision of support for disaster preparedness, recovery and prepositioning of new innovative approaches and partnerships opportunities on the ground or internationally.

Furthermore, the department would initiate institutionalization of Humanitarian Development and Peace nexus approach through deliberate integration of short‑term life saving and long‑term recovery actions in the time of acute and protracted crisis response, whereby the HA and the existing long term development program team work hand in hand and make sure that the affected communities are received an interrupted services in case of major crisis.

The Finance Operations Advisor ensures sound financial management of SOS CVI’s humanitarian portfolio and the Humanitarian Action Team’s departmental resources by leading budgeting and forecasting, monitoring financial performance, managing funding flows and transfers, and providing consolidated financial information for management decision‑making. The role develops and maintains finance tools, provides consolidated financial analyses, and strengthens Member Associations’ financial capacity to deliver compliant, timely, and high‑quality humanitarian interventions.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Budget Development: Support Member Associations in developing budgets for large‑scale humanitarian interventions, ensuring alignment with organisational policies, donor requirements, and financial standards.
• Departmental Budget Management: Manage and monitor the Humanitarian Action Team’s departmental budget, including annual budget planning, development and regular updating of forecasts, actuals reporting, and variance analysis. Maintain an overview of available resources and expenditure and provide regular financial updates to management, following up on identified deviations and required adjustments.
• Financial Monitoring: Monitor financial operations across Member Associations by reviewing key financial reports, conducting spot checks, analysing financial trends, and providing recommendations for corrective action where required.
• Financial Management Tools: Develop and maintain financial management and monitoring tools, including budget tracking templates, reconciliation tools, and reporting formats, to support effective financial oversight and decision‑making.
• Capacity Building and Training: Contribute to the capacity building of finance staff in Member Associations through coaching, guidance, and training on financial policies, tools, systems, and compliance requirements.
• Funding Transfers and Cash Flow Management: Manage the review and approval of humanitarian funding transfers in NPO Accelerator (D365), ensuring that transfers are based on sound cash‑flow planning and aligned with project implementation, reported actuals, available balances, fin